Magician Jan Rose performing at the Chicago Magic Lounge. (Photo credit: Sarah Elizabeth Larson, courtesy of Chicago Magic Lounge) The ever-popular English proverb "March comes in like a lion and goes ...

Well, there are a few problems there, too. Take that iconic lion roar. Sounds majestic, right? Just like the famous MGM roar. Here's the issue: A lion's roar doesn't sound like that. This is a roar.

When Robert May stepped down as president of the UK's Royal Society toward the end of last year, he went not with a whimper, but a roar. In the last speech of his five-year term, the Australian-born ...